PECS 2008 - Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas: LIVERPOOL 25-29 August 2008


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The scientific programme highlights the theme:
    Process studies in the pre-operational era

This topic serves as a guide for presentations and discussions, but contributions on other relevant topics are also accepted.

Events include:
    Icebreaker
    Mersey Ferry cruise
    Conference Dinner
    Excursions

Registration is at the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, which is situated on Brownlow Street between Pembroke Place and Dover Street (building No. 259 on the University of Liverpool Precinct plan). The Conference location is opposite, in the Foresight Centre (building Nos. 359 & 354).

You can download the full Conference Programme and Extended Abstracts. Below is a summary of the Conference Programme.


Summary of programme and events:

 
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Mon
25th
Aug
Bank Holiday

Arrive early for the Mathew Street Festival, World Firefighter Games and other
Liverpool 08 European Capital of Culture events
Joseph Proudman Building
17:30-20:00 Registration, Icebreaker & buffet
Tue
26th
Foresight Centre
08:15-08:45 Registration
08:45-09:00 Welcome
09:00-10:30 Modelling and Forecasting
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 ROFI Dynamics
Foresight Centre
12:30-14:00 Lunch & Poster Session -
                     Shelf Sea Dynamics &
                     Estuarine Morphodynamics
14:00-15:30 Turbulence and
                     Shelf Sea Dynamics
15:30-16:00 Tea break
16:00-17:15 Tidal and Inertial Dynamics
17:15-         Joule NW Tidal Energy Project
                     followed by wine reception
Tuesday evening
(no events planned)
Wed
27th
Foresight Centre
09:00-10:30 Applied Oceanography
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Bottom Boundary Sediment
                     Dynamics and Biological
                     Influences
Foresight Centre
12:30-14:00 Lunch & Poster Session -
                     Sediment Dynamics
14:00-15:30 Cohesive Sediments
15:30-16:00 Tea break
16:00-17:30 Estuary Turbidity Maximum
                     and Sediment Pathways
On board the Royal Daffodil Iris
20:30-23:30 River Mersey Cruise with the Merseysippi Jazz Band (drinks and buffet)
Thu
28th
Foresight Centre
09:00-10:30 Bedforms and Beaches
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Tidal Flats and Channels
12:00-13:00 Estuarine Morphodynamics
Foresight Centre
13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-17:00 Excursions
Merseyside Maritime Museum
19:00-23:00 Conference Dinner
Fri
29th
Foresight Centre
09:00-10:30 Tropical and Subtropical
                     Estuaries
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Frontogenesis and
                     Stratification in Estuaries
Foresight Centre
12:30-14:00 Lunch & Poster Session -
                     Estuarine Dynamics &
                     Tropical and Subtropical
                     Estuaries
14:00-15:45 Mixing and Advection in
                     Estuaries
15:45-16:15 Tea break
16:15-16:45 Student Prizes, The Next PECS
                     Close
Friday evening
(no events planned)

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